Medium severity · published Apr 29, 2022
CVE-2022-0985
Insufficient capability checks could allow users with the moodle/site:uploadusers capability to delete users, without having the necessary moodle/user:delete capability
4.3
CVSS
0.6%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
Insufficient capability checks could allow users with the moodle/site:uploadusers capability to delete users, without having the necessary moodle/user:delete capability.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
Low
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
Low
Availability
None
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)0.6% · higher than 46% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
MO
Moodle · Moodle
before 3.9.13; 3.10.0 before 3.10.10; 3.11.0 before 3.11.6 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-0985
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-0985
Issue Tracking
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2064117
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